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Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. Grab the beverage of your choice (coffee, Earl Gray tea, box wine and Jager are right over there) and scroll through this week’s offering.

A little music for you.

We start off with James Denton. Haven’t seen “Desperate Housewives”. I just liked this pic.
In a belated celebration of Carin’s birthday, I present a new redhead.
We go multi-cultural with Akihiro Sato, a Japanese-Brazilian model.
Paulo Quevado. Looks like a smarter version of George Clooney.
Simon Baker of “The Mentalist”.
And last but not least, Jason Brooks, who was in the last Star Trek movie.
Thank you for your attention, and y’all have a good day.

Once you’ve had a plane fly into your car that pretty much never happens again.

Not so. The purported “law of averages” is a myth, despite its persistence. After a plane flies into your car (or you get T-boned) the probability that it will happen again is the same as before the event.

Put another way, if you flip heads 100 times in a row, which has a probability of .0000000001%, the probability of heads on the next coin toss is still 50/50.

Leon, in my experience (I worked for a CATV company not too long ago) cable companies may expect you to return the box to your nearest office if you don’t want to pay for it (as agreed in the fine print of your service agreement). They usually don’t roll a truck to terminate your service. They can do that automatically from the headend, and leave drop, network interface, and inside wire in place, in case you (or the next resident) want to resume service. You should call the company about this if you don’t want to get dinged.

There are only two outcomes from flipping a coin, but the amount of variables introduced in driving a car to the grocery store and getting hit by plane are basically infinite.

It’s sort of attribute vs continuos data. There are 200 seats on a plane, of which you’ll be assigned one. On the next flight you have the same chance of being assigned the same seat.

Having the flight crash due to sucking a flock of birds through the engine while the pilot is passed out due to food poisoning is another matter all together. Having it happen twice would be the same only if the variables were exactly the same.

The cable company here wants their box back, but you don’t need to go to the store. They’ll ship you a packing box and return label and you just put the packing together, slide in the old box, and slap on a label. But you have to drop it off at UPS.

Watching Tuesday morning’s edition of Red Eye was enlightening. Remi Spencer was take Terry Schappert to task for his comment that the GOP should just let Obama have his way, with the fiscal arguments. She said that Obama was just starting out on the far end of his position, preparing for a negotiation. I found that I agreed with her.

But then it occurred to me. We have all been treating it as a normal negotiation, all the time, The only ones that haven’t are Obama and the Democrats. If they don’t get everything they want, they do NOT give anything to the GOP. There is NO give and take with them. Hence, the reason we have no budget, 1.4 trillion dollar deficits, and executive orders coming out of our ears.

Family lore on my father’s father’s side of the family spoke of an Indian grandmother. Of course, back in the day, nobody would be caught dead admitting that in public. And there are no written records that we can find.

That having been said, my grandfather and my dad’s brothers all had jet black hair in their 70’s.

My dad turned 80 this year, and his hair (what little is left) is STILL black. A few white hairs here and there, but not many.

That one percent makes 80% of the income, but only pays half the taxes. God forbid that rich people should have to pay a tax. I won’t shed any tears for them.

That’s the first comment from Mare’s link. We’re screwed. An entire generation of people think like this. They’ve been raised to always get recognition, praise, regardless of results. Naturally, when they grow up, they want to level the field because they DESERVE IT.

True, and neither are the self-reliant “poor”. Those guys on Moonshiners and Swamp People are probably dirt-butt poor on paper. Once again, I wish I’d taken the time to learn a Trade while I was learning my Profession.

Everything I’ve read, heard, and seen related to the American and French Revolutions made me sympathetic to the French nobility, you know, the guys who actually sided with us when we were a nation of hick farmers fighting the British Empire.

Some of the nobility in France was admirable, leon. The others were just plain out of touch elitists, taking advantage of everyone. It isn’t amazing how many lost their head. We don’t have to live under that type of rule.

Adams, who spent time over in Frants as a diplomat during the Revolution, was really unimpressed with all of the sodomy & such. That said, as in the case of Russia in 1917, “the people” exchanged one tyrant for a whole slew of even more savage tyrants, & Jefferson was a fag.

Ashley Judd was the lawyer’s wife in the Grisham Movie ‘A Time to Kill’. She was only in a few scenes, but they hosed her down with glistening sweat for all of them. She looked really pretty, but sweaty.

The irony is that this new aristocracy (in all senses of the word) mouths platitudes about fairness, etc.
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That’s my favorite part. Populism could totally destroy the leftists that inhabit most levels of government.

The United States of the CoDominium Era is a welfare state divided into two classes: Citizens and Taxpayers. “Citizens” are welfare dependents who are required to live in walled sections of cities called “Welfare Islands.” People are given whatever they need, including the drugs like Borloi to keep them pacified.

HE WAS ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY DAYS DYING and not yet dead. He fought for survival with the passion of a beast in a trap. He was delirious and rotting, but occasionally his primitive mind emerged from the burning nightmare of survival into something resembling sanity. Then he lifted his mute face to Eternity and muttered: “What‟s a matter, me? Help, you goddamn gods! Help, is all.”
Blasphemy came easily to him: it was half his speech, all his life. He had been raised in the gutter school of the twenty-fifth century and spoke nothing but the gutter tongue. Of all brutes in the world he was among the least valuable alive and most likely to survive.

I love Thomas Pynchon. What the hell is wrong with you?
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Nobody loves Thomas Pynchon. The Crying of Lot Whatever was pretty good, but I’m convinced that no one has read Gravity’s Rainbow, but everyone claims to have done so.

I tried reading Gravity’s Rainbow, twice. It was like I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream; that’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor… and surviving.

…government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice Age…

I think the only O. S. Card I’ve read is the original short story (c1977) of Ender’s Game. It was okay. I tried picking up one of the novels, & there’s just no way. He’s like the Mormon Steven King of Sc-Fi.

…and then, another state union member calls the local radio show bitching about 1) not having gotten a pay raise in five years, and 2) having to pay into her own pension fund for the first time.

They just. Have. No clue. What has been going on.

People in the real world are losing their homes and businesses. And these folks- whose pensions we will be paying for forty years after they retire- are bitching about having to make contributions to their own damn pensions.

Mrs. Caruthers used to board her horses at a UAW guy’s farm awhile back. I went with her at one point and he happened to be out and tried to engage me on pensions. I laughed in his face. If it hasn’t been raided by your union bosses, it will be. My 401k is at least mine on paper, they don’t even have that. Just a bunch of promises.

Our State is borrowing 500 million to pay bills. Someone asked the Governor if he thought this was a good idea and he says “we aren’t borrowing money to pay bills, we are taking out a line of credit to pay bills.

The only actual question is, now that Obama doesn’t need anyone’s support to play God-Emperor, how far will he life a finger for blue state demands? This is the Chicago way, remember. Clownifornia has to give something Barry wants to have in order to get stash.

I swear if I hear one more conservative pundit drool about how Republicans have “a brand problem,” I’m going to stencil “CLUEBAT” on the side of a hydrogen-filled dirigible and crash it into the intertubes.

There is no brand problem. People know very well what both parties are selling, and people voted for Free Shit. That’s the winning brand.

Baking bread for the first time in a few months (after I got all frustrated & depressed at having my starter die). If this doesn’t work out I swear I’m gonna drink beer & post a bunch of facetious & sarcastic stuff on twitter.

I would imagine that 45 is considered a “normal” age to pass away in most countries.

I don’t think our bodies were made to last much longer than that, truth be told. We’ve just got the good fortune to have the medical science that allows more of us to survive infancy and early childhood – not to mention the vaccines which protect us from stuff that routinely kills.

It’s still sad when it happens.
We’ve just gotten used to people living longer in this country.

Teresa, you’re actually wrong on that. Low life expectancy is almost always due to high infant and child mortality or death by violence. People who live to early adulthood have been living into their 70s for most of the history of homo sapiens sapiens, the difference now is how many people survive to early adulthood. We’re meant to live to be grandparents.

No doubt, MJ – but the natural instinct for young males is to pass their genetic material on to the next generation.

Google for Japanese “herbivore” or “grass-eating” men. A lot of modern males are opting out of a rigged game. Porn and sex toys are enough to wipe out any drive they might have to put up with a real woman, let alone bother finding one.

Only two provinces, Tibet and Xinjiang, had sex ratios within normal limits across the age range. Two provinces, Jiangxi and Henan, had ratios of over 140 in the 1-4 age group; four provinces—Anhui, Guangdong, Hunan, and Hainan—had ratios of over 130; and seven provinces had ratios between 120 and 129.

Our blog hits are gonna go thru the roof!!1! Let’s hurry up and monetize this bitch stat for moar crazy meat-up money.
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When we’re all famous we should pretend not to know each other, but secretly know each other.

“I am now mandated by the government to talk to you about
your weight, exercise, family life, gun ownership, smoking, sexual abuse(!), and even to ask if you wear seat belts. And I am mandated to record your answers. I am a physician. But I need to tell you to wear a seat belt and then record your answer.”

The doctor had sex with one of his female patients and felt guilty all day long. No matter how much he tried to forget about it, he just couldn’t. The guilt and sense of betrayal of his patient were overwhelming. But every once in a while he’d hear an internal, reassuring voice in his head that said: “Don’t worry about it. You aren’t the first medical practitioner to have sex with one of his patients and you won’t be the last. And you’re single. Just let it go.”

But, invariably, another voice in his head would bring him back to reality, whispering……

My Doc asked me some of those questions, and I asked him “What the fuck business is it of yours?

Dear Doctor: Since your question is required by the government, it constitutes a search. Since you do not have a warrent, I will not be complying with your search. If you persist in asking non-medical questions, I will fire you and demand a refund for all services rendered.

Car in, I have a Springfield Armory XDm in 9 mm (well, a few more than that in the big safe), in my handgun safe near the bed. It’s a good gun, 9 mm defensive ammo is good enough for my purposes. There’s lots of opinions, that’s just mine. Glock, XDm, S+W’s M+P line, they are all good guns. 9 mm vs .45 ACP is a debate I’m tired of…I like the 9’s!

Mare’s Musings

February 18, 2018

I’ll tell you, I had to turn the Olympics off last night. The gay overload with the gay flags and gayness and the gay skier and the all about gay was too much for me. How does being gay have ANYTHING to do with skiing unless you’re purposefully landing on a pole?